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====Candiear====
 
====Candiear====
 
The battle for [[Candiear]] was the last major engagement for the Fourth during the Reunification War. By the time the SLDF task force moved against the world in [[2585]], the ultimate fate of the campaign was already certain but the remaining MAF units continued to resist. VII Corps dropped an ad hoc [[division]] of troops on Candiear, consisting of the combined forces of the Fifty-sixth Brigade, the [[Sixty-first Royal Brigade]] and the [[Sixty-second Royal Brigade]]. The Fourth deployed alongside the Second Oriente Hussars and the Third Regulan Hussars again, as they had on Afarsin. Although heavily outnumbered, some of the best units in the MAF were defending Candiear; the SLDF troops had to face both the [[2nd Canopian Light Horse|Second]] and [[Fourth Canopian Light Horse]] as well as [[Buquoy's Bandits]], the personal regiment of the MAF commanding officer, [[Colonel]] [[Adam Buquoy]]. Although the SLDF strike force outnumbered the Canopian regiments, they couldn't pin them down and destroy them, and all three regiments escaped to fight again on other worlds.<ref name="H:RWp149"/><ref name="H:RWp151"/><ref name="H:RWp105">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 105: "Mopping Up (2584-2588)"</ref> The campaign was marred by the bitter war of words that erupted between the CO of the Third Regulan Hussars and others regarding the performance of the various units, a war of words that was the direct consequence of the general feeling amongst the Third Hussars that they had been slighted by not being selected for the assault on Canopus the year before.<ref name="H:RWp38">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 38: "Third Regulan Hussars"</ref>
 
The battle for [[Candiear]] was the last major engagement for the Fourth during the Reunification War. By the time the SLDF task force moved against the world in [[2585]], the ultimate fate of the campaign was already certain but the remaining MAF units continued to resist. VII Corps dropped an ad hoc [[division]] of troops on Candiear, consisting of the combined forces of the Fifty-sixth Brigade, the [[Sixty-first Royal Brigade]] and the [[Sixty-second Royal Brigade]]. The Fourth deployed alongside the Second Oriente Hussars and the Third Regulan Hussars again, as they had on Afarsin. Although heavily outnumbered, some of the best units in the MAF were defending Candiear; the SLDF troops had to face both the [[2nd Canopian Light Horse|Second]] and [[Fourth Canopian Light Horse]] as well as [[Buquoy's Bandits]], the personal regiment of the MAF commanding officer, [[Colonel]] [[Adam Buquoy]]. Although the SLDF strike force outnumbered the Canopian regiments, they couldn't pin them down and destroy them, and all three regiments escaped to fight again on other worlds.<ref name="H:RWp149"/><ref name="H:RWp151"/><ref name="H:RWp105">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 105: "Mopping Up (2584-2588)"</ref> The campaign was marred by the bitter war of words that erupted between the CO of the Third Regulan Hussars and others regarding the performance of the various units, a war of words that was the direct consequence of the general feeling amongst the Third Hussars that they had been slighted by not being selected for the assault on Canopus the year before.<ref name="H:RWp38">''Historical: Reunification War'', p. 38: "Third Regulan Hussars"</ref>
 
===Star League Era===
 
When the [[Star League]] Council issued the [[Council Edict of 2650]] limiting the size of the military maintained by each [[Great House]] the Fourth was one of nineteen active regiments within the Marik Militia. Like the other regiments of the Militia, the Fourth remained a popular unit with both the commoners within the League and the peerage because of their public dedication to the people of the League, and like the other regiments of the Militia often acted as training grounds for troops across the League. A significant number of the personnel serving in other more prestigious federal units and various provincial forces within the League had actually begun their careers in the Fifth or another of the Marik Militia regiments.<ref name="FR2765:FWLMp10"/>
 
  
 
===Early Succession Wars===
 
===Early Succession Wars===

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